> Or train it with the voice of the computer from TNG, pair it with ChatGPT and now I have the perfect digital assistant. Apparently the project of keeping the

> Or train it with the voice of the computer from TNG, pair it with ChatGPT and now I have the perfect digital assistant. Apparently the project of keeping the voice of Majel Barrett around forever had already been started long before machine learning models became commonplace, so a generative ML model of her voice will surely be done in some way: https://mobile.twitter.com/roddenberry/status/772493204121944066 https://mobile.twitter.com/roddenberry/status/77249320412194... I wonder what this will mean for the profession of voice actors. That market will surely suffer hard from the stock-photo equivalent in voice models racing to the bottom, but if some sane default contract models emerge that are respectful to both sides perhaps custom recording can remain an attractive premium option: do tailored recording for the main items and allow extensions from a model derived from the initial set for a fee that's considerably lower than what would be appropriate for real, recorded extensions but not quite free forever included with the initial payout. Model-as-a-service could become quite a business opportunity because it would not just be about being good at taking a set of recordings and running the algorithms but also double as a trusted intermediary. Really depends on how cheap a service like that could operate.